Eaten Alive: Most of the Band of the Hawk, including Pippin and Corkus, meet their deaths by being devoured alive by Apostles.
Even so, plenty of time is spent developing each member of the Band in order to endear them to the audience and help them share Guts' feelings of grief and anguish when the inevitable happens and Griffith sacrifices them all to the demons of Hell to become an Eldritch Abomination.
Developing Doomed Characters: From the very beginning, the audience knows that Guts' journey with the Hawks won't end well by the end of the Golden Age.
Cruel and Unusual Death: All of the Hawks in the wounded camp except Rickert, and all of the Hawks in the Eclipse except Guts and Casca, were killed and/or Eaten Alive by Apostles in the most nightmarish ways.
Badass Crew: The named leaders of the Band of the Hawk form a tightly knit group of combat veterans who have been following Griffith since the early days (with the exception of newcomer Guts, who still manages to become Griffith's most trusted companion within just three years), and they would gived their lives for him and for each other.
There's no one in the Band of the Hawk who didn't join of their own will or who isn't willing to endure suffering, and their superior morale and tactics have enabled them to defeat armies that were much stronger than them on paper.
Badass Army: Judeau says that even though the individual soldiers in the Band of the Hawk are no different than the mercenaries you would find in other armies, Griffith's inspirational leadership has made them into a force that's more than the sum of its parts.
Tropes applying to the Band of the Hawk in general also apply to Griffith, Guts, and Casca, but they have their own character pages for tropes applying to them as individuals. Only Guts and Casca survived the nightmare, but as mentioned above, they did not come out of it unscathed. With the exception of Rickert, all of the original Hawks were victims of Griffith's Transhuman Treachery, and ended up as Sacrificial Lions to the Godhand in order to fulfill Griffith's destiny. At first little more than a group of bandits, in which Judeau, Corkus, Pippin, and Casca were early members, their numbers and reputation grow quickly, especially once they add Guts as the captain of the raiders. The Band of the Hawk (鷹の団 Taka no Dan) is the legendary mercenary company that Griffith started as a young man to pursue the goal of winning his own kingdom.
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